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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Detroits will report on March 10, for
trip South. -,a:-
NEARLY every city in Kansas will have a
professional team next pear.
REAL Indians have taken to baseball.
Legg, the catcher of the Oshkosh club, is
redskin by birth. 49,.
UNDER the new rules catchers will have
plenty Of work next season. It will consist
mainly in throwing.
The right handed pitchers are, as a rule,
less worried about the new pitching rules
than the left-handed twirlers. ..
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
by the baseball managers throughout the
country for the approaching season.
MRS. CLEvELAND's cousin, Ben Folsom,
the new consul at Sheffield, England, has
shown himself to be true American by or
ganizing baseball nine on British soil
THE greatest number of innings ever
played in baseball game was twenty -four;
between the Harvard College and Manches-
ter mines, at Boston, Mass, on May II, 1877.
THE Southern League next season will en-
brace Memphis. New Orleans, kCharieston,
Nashville. Savannah, Mobile, Birmingham
and Chattanooga. Atlanta and Macon have
dropped out
The famous Maple Leafs Guelph, Ont) Of
last season, are scattered all over the coun-
try. Zell and Purvis have signed with Buff
falo, Campau will probably go to Syracuse,
Buckenburger goes to Kalamazoo, Scheibeck
to Cleveland, Williams and Easton to Wheel
ing. Dillon and Stephens to Eau Claire, and
George to New York.
PRESIDENT YOUNG says regarding the
National League race for 1897: "Itis hoped
that as result Of the changes made and yet
to be made, that the close Of the season OF
1887 will witness the clubs so closely punched
that their position in the championship race
cannot be fully established until the last Sc
ries of games is finished"
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MILLIONS FOB DEFENCE.
The Senate Passes Ordnance Bills
Appropriating $21, 100000.

The Senate Passes Ordnance Bills
Appropriating $21 100000. .
After very brief discussion, and with SO
little opposition that division was not
called for, the Senate passed on Monday two
bills reported from the Committee on Coast
Defenses to encourage the manufacture or
steel for modern army and navy ordnance,
armor and other military purposes, and to
provide heavy ordnance adapted to modern
warfare. Each bill appropriates $S,OOO,O ,OOO,
to be available during six years from Janu-
ary l, 1897. An additional sum Of 5000
600 is provided for in the Army Ord
nance bill to be expended in the construc-
ton Of Notifications and other works
Of coast defense. The bills authorize the
Secretary of War and Secretary OF the
Navy, respectively, to contract with re-
sponsible steel manufacturers for the supply
OF rough bored, rough turned, and tenn
pered steel, in forms suitable for
heavy ordnance, and for finished steel
for armor shafting aud other army and naval
purposes up to 1000 tons gross for each
class. Each bidder isto be required to con-
tract to erect a suitable plant, capable OF
making all the steel required, and all
the forgings must be manufactured IN
the United States. The Army bill pro-
vides for the erection Of an army gun FAC
tory, to cost not over 81 ,OOO,UO at the
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, n. Y, and
the Naval bill calls for factory for naval
guns at the Washington Navy Yard under
the same limit of expense. ~.
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Foreign.


A scHooL-HoUsE at St. Monique, Canada,
caught fire, and four young grls-three OF
them sisters-were burned to death.
SERVICES have just been held in Lambeth
Palace Chapel, London, to commemorate the
Conservation there in 1857 OF the first bishops
of the Episcopal Church In America. Among
the participants were the Archbishop Of
Canterbury, the Bishops Of London and
Winchester, and Bishops Potter and Lyman
of America Bishop Potter delivered an ed
dress sketching the history Of the Church In
America.
Mr.. PARNELL has been making another
speech in the British House Of Commons,
warning the Government against its coercive
measures in Ireland, and defending the
Home Rulers plan of campaign.
CONCERNING the fishery dispute, an OF
tawa (Canadal special says the British GOV.
ernment is anxious to reopen the treaty OF
the United States and England. This. Lord
Salisbury says, is the only way in which The
matter can be settled.
AN Austrian inn-kesper and his wife nave
been arrested for committing a series OF
eleven murders, extending over several
wears. The victims were wealthy soJourn-
ers, one being baron.
IT is stated that the Abyssinians lost 5000
men in the battles in which the Italian forces
were defeated near Massowah, IN the Sou
dan.
THE few Apaches who escaped from the
United States troops last fall have been rob
bing and killing Mexicans In Sonora
THE Italian Ministers have resigned, and q
new Cabinet will be formed.
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SPRY LITTLE PEOPLE.

THE twelvc-year-old daughter Of Hans
Hansen, a farmcr, of Piprstone County,
Mimi, ploughei H. acres of his farm tor
him last year.
THE editor of weekly paper published
near Palatka, Florida, announced in recent
issue of the paper that the greater part OF its
contents had been put in typo during his i'll
ness by his young daughters, aged twelve
and fourteen.
A FARMERS house near Burlington, WIS,
caught fire last week when no water was ut
hand to extinguish the flames. A youthful
member of tho family ran to the dairy and
there procured quantity of milk, with which
the blaze was speedily quenched.
A BOY of thirteen went into the jail at
Jacksonville, Florida. and asked the author
tiles to allow him to serve out the sentence
of boy who had becn imprisoned for va
grancy. Tho Justice who sentenced the boy
was appealed to, and was SO affected by the
ladR dc, otiln that he ordered his young
friends release.
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The Cuutpntor thinks it is yery e,

The Cultioator thinks it is very evi.
dent that the cattlc-ranch business ha,
been overdone, especially in those spec
ulative enterprises which did their prin-
cipal business on paper and in the bank
ing houses of the East. Vast sums OF
money have been lost in Europe, as we'll
as in this country, in these inflated
schemes We know of one firm in this
city that has charged off to profit and
loss account upward of $1,000, 900 sunk
in most promising cattle-ranch invest
ment. Of course, there is money in le
gitimate cattle raising, but the specula
tive enterprises stimulated by few sue
cesses have proved the ruin of many, and
entailed serious losses upon still greater
number.
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SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.

r, F. SIMPSON. of st. Elmo, Mich, was
recently bitten slightly on the finger by hG
infant child. A week late: his hand aEI
arm began to swell, blood-poisoning ensued
and he died in horrible agony.
LITTLE WILLIE, the SON Of an Omaha
man, swallowed silver dollar when he was
three years DID, The coin remained IN his
stomach two years, but was finally eXtract-
cd. The boy now has symptoms Oh Dloou-
poisoning.
DAN REILLY, owner Of the Cyclops Nine
near HALEY, Ore, was caught III snow
slide anil carried O mile down the mountain.
He was only slightly injured, but was com,
pletely buried in the snow. He dug tunnel
and worked his way out, but it took "noie
day to do it.
FREEMAN ARLINGTON, of Augusta, VA,
ATTEMPTED to fix the electric light III MS Dill
lard hall recently, when his hands came IN
contact with both carbons of the lamp ana
strong current OF electricity passed through
his body. He will recover. bat his tongue
and throat are paralyzed and he is unable TO
utter word.
A MERCHANT eff Florence, Ala, named
Barber, was approached by friend from
the rear who threw his arm over BarDers $
neck drawing his head downward and bring
ing his right eve in contact with lead Pen-
Gil which his friend had in his pocket. Inc
lead poisoned the optic nerve, the brain De-
came affected and he died insane
A MAINE man, while chopping wood, cut
big cash in his boot Thinking he had cut
a cash in his foot also, he sat down ana
shouted for help. Assistance came, ana ths
on sled and hauled home. When he got
there his boot and stocking. we're cut from
his foot when it was found that the foot was
not cut enough to draw blood.
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One of the strangest of religious sects
is that which calls itself the New and
Latter House of Israel. Its headquarters
are in Chatham, England, in which town
its devotees are building an immense
temple which will cost $3.50, 900. They
believe that they will not die, and that
they are the remnant of true Israelites
who will reign with Christ for thou
sand years. Their founder was mar
named Jczriel, who is now dead. Hi
death was a great shock to the be
levers, but his wife claimed that it wa
An accident, and declared herself to b.
his successor.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

WEBER received for his great opera, ''Frei.
schultz" only si95.
BERNHARDr will begin her American en-.
gagement in March.
MISS MINNIE HAUK has sailed for Eng
land. She will sing in London soon.
THERE are twenty-four operatic and con-
cert companies on the road this season.
LESTER WALLAcH is said to be getting
stiff in the knees, and he is thinking OF CIV
up playing altogether.
PORTLAND, Ore, has subscribed S15,ON
wherewith to pay for two concerts by Mime.
Patti and her company.
MISS MILFORD in 1925 wrote the play in
which Lawrence Barrett as Rienzi Is now
making his best reputation.
PATTI, the great singer, will entertain at
her home in Wales, in q short time, Presl.
dent Diaz, Of Mexico, and his wife.
THE English title of Franz Won Suppe's
new opera is "The Bellman." A copyright
performance will be given in London.
w. S. GILBERT has already made consid.
erable changes in the second act OF the new
comic opera, "Ruddygore," and intends TO
make more.
GEORGE R. SIMS, the English playwright
and story-teller, has received nearly SlUO,ooo
from his plays produced in the United States
during the past five years.
In the recent production of ''Nordica, a
new English opera by Frederick Corder, by
Carl Rosa's company in London, three OF the
principal singers in the cast were Americans.
The great Chicago Opera House is now
said to be as good asan accomplished fact. The
ediice is to cost s., OOO 900, will be ten stories
high and will be surmounted by tower SOo
feet high. The auditorium on all ordinary
occasions will seat 5000 people, but the ca
pacity can be enlarged to 500 for conven-
tions and other public gatherings. The stage
will be 10 by 126 feet, dimensions which are
only surpassed by those of La Scala, at
Milan.
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The phylloxera is impartial between
France and Germany. After having
wrought ruin in the vineyards of the
former country it has recently attacked
thoss along the Rhine. Commercial
Agent ]. II. Smith, of Mayence, reports
to the State Department that careful
investigation of the Rhine and Moselle
vineyards has been made by the govern
ment with a view to the extirpation OF
the pest. AS result the infected regions
lave been ascertained and the ravages OF
che insect materially lessened. In 1885,
e,713 diseased vines were discovered; in
1886, but 275.
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An Iowa punster is to be punished on
account of legal complication with
his word play. The punster's name
is Steers and he owns farm in Iowa. A
few days ago he obtained a loan of 800,
and gave as security a mortgage upon
1sfve white Steers on his farm" Then he
went to Kansas, and when the holder of
the mortgage went to the farm to look at
the five white Steers Mrs. Steers showed
him her five children. The outraged
mortgage holder has secured a requlsi-
ton from the Governor, and the old
Steer will be brought back to Iowa and
punished.
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LATER NEWS.

"JIM" CoURTRIGuT, a detective at Fort
Worth, Texas, with national reputation a
a desperate man, was shot dead by Luke
Short a gambler.
MANY Of the coal handlers and longshore.
men on strike in New York have become
disheartened and gone back to work. The
Reading Railroad compromised with the
strikers; the other roads refused offers to
arbitrate.
INVESTIGATION Of the accounts Of John G.
Leighton, who has just resigned as Clerk Of
the Municipal Criminal Court in Boston,
shows deficiency Of about $500, 600.
THE result of the recent Vermont railroad
disaster now seems as follows: The total
number of persons on the train as far as
known was eighty-four. Thirty-four are
known to he dead, and twelve are known to
have gone to their homes. which, with the
THE Pennsylvania House has passed a
joint resolution providing for the submis-
sion Of the question Of prohibition amend
ment TO vote Of the people.
A FUEL famine at Fort Benton, Montana,
has increased the price Of coal to $50 ton
TEN children were bitten by a mad dog in
Niles Centre, Ill.
A NUMBER Of buildings were carried away
at Aurora, ILL.,, by fo.d.
SEVERAL wild bulls, destined for bull
fight, broke loose while being driven through
the streets Of the City of Mexico, and killed a
number of persons.
AFTER one defeat Mr. Goschen, Chancellor
of the British Exchequer, has been elected a
member of Parliament
THE Western Bank of the City of New
York has been organized with Secretary
Manning as President and United States
Treasurer Conrad \. Jordan Vice-Presi-
dent
Two men were killed, two fatally injured,
six seriously hurt and nearly 100 horses
burned to death ut a fire in st. Louisstable
DEPUTY SHERIFF LocKHARDT and two
assistants attempted to arrest an Indian on
the Navajo reservation in New Mexico for
horse-stealing. The Indian resisted arrest,
and Lockhardt shot him dead. The other
Indians opened fire, and a general battle
ensued. The three whites and two Indians
were killed, and two Indians wounded.
A STATE reception-the last of the series
was given on Thursday to the Army and
Navy by Mr. and Mrs Cleveland. The late
mistress of the White House, Miss Cleveland,
and Generals Sickles and Banks were con
spicuous in the throng.
MArNA LoA, the celebrated volcano on
Hawaii Island, is again in eruption, belchine
fire, smoke and lava. Earthquake shocks ac'
company the outbreak.
MRS. HENRY WOOD, the noted English
authoress, is dead.
THE sixteen thousand miners on strike in
Northumberland, England, against reduc
tlon of wages, want $40, 900 q week from the
other English Unions to keep their families
| from starving.
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The extensive scale on which the busi-
ness of canning tomatoes is done is made
apparent in the american Grocer. The
tomato pack of 1886 reached total of
2,363, 7G0 cases of two dozen tins each,
being 929,7 cases ahead of the 1885
pack and about up to the average annual
pack for the three years of 1sS3S5,
which was ., 1872, 921 cases. In 1883 the
supply reached 5000, 600 cases. In 1885
the pack was less than onc-half that of
1888, and 6s7,171 cases below that Of
1884. The shortages of those two years
and the failure to bring the supply of
this year up to the maximum yield OF
1884 have been productive of good in
that they have sent all the old packed
goods into consumption. Two million
cases of tomatoes are less than the an
nual requirements of the United States,
which are placed at fully 2, 800, 900 cases.
The spring of 1887 will see the stock OF
tomatoes throughout the United States
lighter than it has been at any time for
six years. Packers have had this season
a rising Notwithstanding they have
been looking forward to for years. The
work of the year has been profitable to
all good packers. The crop was variable,
being very heavyin New Jersey, good in
New York, Chic and Canada, but not up
to expectation in Maryland or the West
ern States, where it was very irregular.
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The Chicago Inter- Ocean sounds this
timely note of warning: "Now is the
time for the United States to enforce a
rigid quarantine against the cholera in
fected districts of South America. I'm
less it is done and done promptly the
dreaded scourge will enter upon the do
main of the United States the coming
year. The line of danger will be through
Mexico or from the ports of the Pacific
coast whose traffic with the infected
ports is direct. Aside from its ravages
as a disease, the coming of the cholera
would be National financial disaster" !"
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NEWsY GLEANINGs

CARS warmed by steam from the locomor
tive will soon be feature OF railroadlng.
TIE wife Of a railroad President was
caught stealing dry goods in a Cleveland
store the other day.
SEVEN years ago fire broke out in deep
mine near Virginia City, New, and IL mas
been burning ever since.
Tn attemptine to enter the canal at Mena-
sha, Wis, a l40- 0-pound sturgeon grounded on
a sandbar and was captured
PROMINENT colored men. in Ohio have
called a National Convention to take steps
to erect monument to John Brown
In case of war in Europe, the price OF
breadstutfs and hog products IN TINS country
would make considerable advance.
CHICAGO is considering a $4,000 900
scheme to drain its sewage into the Missls-
sippi, thus keeping Lake Michigan pure.
AsBURY WADE, the tsllest man in South
Carolina. is dead. He was colored man,
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THE ICE PALACE.

But looming above everything else in in
terost, grandeur and novelty, was tho ice
palace-a castle of aIahaster by day and a
mammoth lautern of crystal by night. Ice
palaces, says the New York Sun CORES
pondent at Montreal, are among the most
progressive things in modern times. They
grow bigger and more complicated each
year, until from being mere box oiiire, this
one has reached the development Of
full nedge,l fendal castle, with
several towers, hattements armed with
cannon, and a hall for exhibitions.
The plan is an irregular sqnnre enclosing mn
area of some IA, ono feet entirely clear, open
to the sky. From each angle of the square q
tower rises, that on the southwestern corner
tower at Windsor Castle, and pro-
vided with spiral staircase in
ice leading to a parapet commanding fine
view. A height OF 1B feet was attained by
the principal tower. The tower mt the enSt-
cru angle rose to height of 30 feet, and was
placed diagonally to the walls. At the north.
erly angle there was fourth tower, ~ feet
square and 50 feet high. Special provision,
dictated by experience was made in the de-
and pyrotechnics The ice castle will be
lighted by electricity for fortnight after
the carnival, and will be, in all probability,
in perfect order until the second week of
March.
The principal feature of the carnival
wednesday morning wns the immense pro-
cession of the qnarrymen Of Cotaan, St
Louis and Milo End, who paraded the
principal streats with 145 loads of stone,
which they offered to Archbishop Fabre,
as q contribution to St. Peter's Cathedral.
The procession was over a mile long, the
sleighs and horses being gayly decorated.
The annual drive of the Contractors Asso-
citation was another attraction of the day.
There were about sixty sleighs and great
many of the visitors took part in il, ,asit was
public.
About 25,0OO people witnessed the attack
made upon the Ice Castle at night. 1t was
one of the grandeSt sights, and far ahead Of
any previous one. The streets leading to
Dominion Saure were packed, and the sides
of the mountain lined with spectators.
The Governor-G General and wife were
present. accompanied by their suite and
escorted by a troop Of cavalry. The snow
shoers met and proceeded carly in the even
ing up the mountain, forming ranks on the
summit. At the blast Of trumpets they
moved down changing their coal-oil torches
and blue lights, making beautiful
scene amid the booming Of cannon. On ar
irving there they formed circle, COM
pletelv surrounding the castle, and began q
Simultaneous discharge of rockets and
Roman candles. A perfect shower
Of fireworks was then kept up. for
fifteen minutes, the fiery attack being
so lively one enthusiastic American said
"You could hardly see between the balls o.
fire." All known fireworks went off in all
directions Shortly after 10 o'clock the last
rocket was fred and the display was over.
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number,
Spain, which is not usually reckoned

Spain, which is not usually reckoned
among the first of European nations in
naval matters, at present possesses the
fastest steamer in the world. The name
Of this smart vessel is Ell Destructor, and
she is torpedo cruiser which can steam,
with her full armament on board, at the
rate of twenty three knots, that is, al
most twenty-seven miles an hour. Among
her other accomplishments she Is able
to turn quite round in space OF four
or five times her own length while going
at full speed. The spaniard can run
700 miles at full speed without requiring
fresh coal supply. This formidable racer
was not built in Spain, but on the Clyde.
She is only the first of fleet of similar
cruisers ordered for Spain.
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The Crematorial Association of Phila.
delphia is preparing to build the largest
and costliest crematory chapel in the
world. 1t will have front of sixty
six feet, depth of one hundred and five
feet; the distance will be ninety feet to
the top of the dome, the material will be
granite, pressed red brick and terra cot
ia, and the cost will be $4,000.
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The queerest thing in Boston is the re-
cent sale of church without the tower,
which latter is retained by man who
became the buyer under mortgage. The
reason is that this man thought that
those who bought the church did not
have sufficient aesthetic taste to prevent
their tearing down the tower. Hence
he keeps for himself about twenty square
feet of land on which the tower is built
and deeds all the rest of the land with
the church building to the new congre.
cation.
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In order that all the citizens of Mime
sofa might read the Governors message
it was translated into ten different Ian
guages-English, German, Norwegian,
Swedish, French, Bohemian, Finn, Po'
lish, Italian and Chinese. Six thousand
copies were printed in English and
three hundred in Chinese, the number in
the other languages ranging from five
hundred to one thousand.
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The recent birth of Secretary Whit
ney's daughter is the fifth instance in
the last twenty years of an increase in
like manner of Cabinet family. Dur
ing Johnson's administration Secretary
McCulloch was presented with daugh-
ter, as was also Postmaster General Deni-
son. In General Grants second term
two Cabinet babies were born-one the
daughter of Secretary Bolknap, the other
the daughter of Secretary Robson.
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Mr.. Barnes, of Georgia, is the heavie

Mr.. Barnes, of Georgia, is the heaviest
member of the National House of Repre-
sentatives. He weighs over three hun
dred pounds. Messrs. Sawyer, of Wis
consin; and Stanford, of California; are
the portliest men in the Senate and have
the fattest pocketbooks. The smallest
man in Congress is General Wheeler, of
Alabama; the tallest man is Mr.. Stewart,
of Texas, who stands six feet three inches
in his boots.